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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

I will love him/her and squeeze him/her and call him/her "Babs."

Good friends, the Hooks and Slices always hoped their little ones might one day grow up and fall in love. However, little James' love of the open sea and life-long distaste of children would eventually drive Sally to drinking and raising teacup poodles. (Although after the ASPCA stepped in, she was forced to stick to just raising them.)

Here's a tip: if your last name is Bignar, and you want your shower cake to read "Welcome Baby," proceed with caution.

Wow. It's not often one gets to witness the birth of an embarrassing nickname!

Do you suppose a kid named "Finally" could ever get addressed in a non-sarcastic manner?

The first cake is for twins? And the decoration on the hook and slice one is lovely, though it would be very odd in Ireland where the connotations of baby angels are obviously not the same as China (?)

I know Jen always makes jokes about a baby boy named Finally. I work for a government agency and had a child come across my desk named Finally, and a boy. I was so intrigued I had to find out what lead to this name. After contacting the grandparent, I learned that he had 7 older sisters. So Jen, he is out there!

It just makes me feel ill that people order cakes saying "Finally" about getting a child the "right" gender. Way to completely destroy the other kids in the family. You weren't born because your parents wanted you, they wished you had been a ____ and had to keep on trying because you failed.

I do understand a family wanting a male heir to carry on the family name, or the desire to have a daughter to share feminine interests with, but when that desire is carried to an unhealthy level and the girls/boys in the family are made to feel their inferiority, it's awful.

KittyKat - Cake 4 could be taken to mean that the parents had been trying for a long time to have a baby, and this is their first.

That being said - I'm a mom of 3 boys, and I can't tell you how many people (and we're talking complete strangers, like the grocery store checkout lady) have asked me if we're going to try again for a girl. I absolutely hate the assumption that we feel our family to be incomplete without a daughter; when in fact, we're very happy with exactly the kids God gave us. (When I was pregnant with my third and we told family that our ultrasound indicated a boy, my husband's grandmother patted my hand and said, 'There there, dear, maybe next time you'll finally get that girl.' I could've socked her. I responded, 'Thanks, but I think I'll finish gestating this one first.')

2: This makes me think of all those people walking around with the Chinese symbol for "strengh" or whatever tattoed on their back. What if it really says something like "cheeseburger"?

Maybe the Chinese baker thought they were writing the English for Joy and Happiness. Or maybe two Chinese parents saw "Hook" and "Slice" written out and thought they were awsome name choices. Do they sound like 80's gangmember nicknames to anyone else?

4: Finally is a boy... Sounds like a cake celebrating a specific kind of elective surgery.

I've noticed a specfic baby theme for the past couple of days. Is there some news you'd like to share with us? : )

You know, I've seen parents push their sons to be athletes, or doctors, or lawyers, but this is definitely the first time I've seen parents setting their child up so perfectly for a career as a professional drag queen. You go, little Luca Joseph Kiwi Mango!

That first cake could have been my sister-in-law's. When she was in grade school, she wrote a paper about the Mayflower and mentioned that a "babby" boy was born during the crossing. Since then, babies have been babbies in our family.

Gary said... "Oh, I just had a thought:Given the "Pink vs. Blue" decorative theme on the "Hook/Slice" cake, could "Hook" and "Slice" be vulgar terms for portions of the male and female anatomy, respectively?"

Abi, I like your interpretation MUCH better, and anyone who has suffered through the nightmare of infertility certainly has earned as many "FINALLY!" celebration cakes as they want!

Congrats on your 3 terrific sons. I am sorry you have relatives who don't seem willing just to enjoy the fabulous kids you already have! It's really unhealthy the level some people will try to impose their template of an "ideal family" on other people's kids!

In line with what Gary said about the Hook & Slice cake, some people believe that certain...um, positions can lead to having a boy or a girl. I absolutely cringed when I saw it, whatever it IS supposed to mean.

The folks who commissioned the "Big Nar" cake also should've looked into finding someone with a sense of color and an eye for flotsam arrangement. I guess this goes to show you can't have it all-- or even any of it, maybe.

Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I can totally read the names on that last cake as Luca Kiwi and Joseph Mango. Or, perhaps, Luca Joseph's cake was supposed to have kiwis and mangoes on it (or be a kiwi-mango cake).

Ah, the possibilities!I love cakes that leave it all up to the imagination.

WV: donsig - a wrecky way of saying "dancing." I feel like donsig because this blog makes me feel so good about my amateur cake decorating!

I hope that "Finally" cake isn't the result of some mad, desperate longing to have a boy-- you can't control everything in life. Also, this inability to control things applies to your cake order at the local bakery, it would seem.

I'm with those who couldn't see a problem with the first cake. I know enough people that call 'em babbies that I just figured it belonged to an Irish family (or as other commenters have pointed out, Scottish or Brummie).

Hook and Slice are also used in cricket, but the latter is not an elegant shot, so I doubt you'd name your kid that. Far more likely to be "Cover Drive". A good hook shot is worth naming your kid after though. Seems like a girl's name to me. Cover Drive would be your boy's name.

I'm willing to bet "Kiwi" and "Mango" were the nicknames of the twins while they were in utero.

My oldest brother was "Buzzard" and my other brother was "Vulture" when my mom was pregnant. I was "Crow" because my dad decided that since they wanted a girl, they needed a more "feminine-sounding" nickname. =D

As someone suggested hook & slice are probably the nicknames of a golf lover's twins. But I like to think that somehow a golf themed cake got mixed up with a baby shower cake. Somewhere there is a golf cake that says "Congratulations on your new arrivals."

It is so sad when the placement of one capital letter can change the whole meaning of a sentance. Or even the lack of a capital letter.While I have heard some really bizare names for kids, 'Finally' takes the cake (so to put it). Q: What is it with celebrities giving their kids weird names? It is like they want them to be picked on at school.

I went to an antique needlework lecture that discussed a sampler by an early nineteenth century girl, Waitstill Richards. Apparently this was a fairly common name for a daughter whose parents had to "wait still" for a son.

I'm not disputing the wreckishness of that first cake, just unintentional chauvinism on your part: "babby" is a perfectly respectable pronunciation of "baby" in the Sunderland/Tyneside part of England -- up north, you know. Lots of planets have a North...I still admire and respect your dedication, just thought I'd offer this interpretation...

A fruity king or Bob Geldof is having more children & this is his cake. I can see it, Luca Joeseph Kiwi Mango Geldof, he's playing with his sister's, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa, Little Pixie & Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. See, he fits right in there.

I'm an English teacher in China. I'm from America. I'm a native English speaker. But now, I'm questioning my sanity.

"I'm soooooo confused!" (Vinnie Barbarino lives.)

I do teach a section on the difference between American and British English, but I've never heard of "How's your father?" being an item of contention. (Gotta admit, never heard of "babbies" before either!)

I thought of the babby meme and Brummies, too. That said, it very well could be non-intentional wreckage...

LOL I also hope 'Finally' is a long-waited for first baby, not the unfortunate progeny of desperate parents who had 13 girls in the hope of having a boy! I can understand appreciating children of either gender, but when it becomes a creepy obsession, carrying on having kids just to 'complete the set' rather than because they can look after and want more children, it's the children that suffer.

Word Verification: skilis.

Don't apply for a cake decoraring job unless you have all the relevant skilis, or you will create nothing but wrecks!

New word verification: inessest (too bad to pass up!)

Obsessing about having a kid of one particular gender may make people think you're into inessest...

"War Cake," as in "It's chocolate covered shrapnel, thus the awkward shape?" Or because they shot the strawberries right into the side, which would explain their odd placement? Was a derator used to make this? Without a doubt!

"However, little James' love of the open sea and life-long distaste of children would eventually drive Sally to drinking and raising teacup poodles. (Although after the ASPCA stepped in, she was forced to stick to just raising them.)"

LOL! When I read this, I laughed so hard, I shot my teacup poodle out my nose. Excuse me while I wipe off my computer screen. --- Sally

Sorry, but I'm with everyone else who said 'babbies' might not be a mistake. It's a perfectly reasonable word in many parts of the British Isles, so really it just depends who the cake was for and what they intended to have on it.

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